Twitter is most suitable for me. In the Chinese language, 140 characters is a novella..

Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it's not a product; it's an understanding of human nature..

I am very much interested in the so-called useless object. I mean, it takes perfect craftsmanship, beautiful material carefully measured and crafted,….

I call on people to be 'obsessed citizens,' forever questioning and asking for accountability. That's the only chance we have today of a healthy and ….

Maybe [success] is because I'm in China and I'm more open. Maybe it's my independent behavior, or because I participated in certain projects. I have ….

If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?.

I came back [to Beijing ] because that's the only time I had an excuse to come back, or otherwise I would never have a reason to come back..

In the end, I think, the state's rigidity is a function of its own insecurity, its indecisiveness..

Art is always about overcoming obstacles between the inner condition and the skill for expression..

Of course, people will call you an old artist or young artist, which is just a character of you. But personally, I don't think my work and my underst….

I think China is laughing about the results of the presidential elections. China, Russia, they all laugh about it. They see how dramatic U.S. has to ….

Hopefully, other successes aren't like me. It carries much more meaning to other people; my success story is irrelevant. It doesn't make any sense..

I don't think I was very structured in that society and I don't really believe in personal success, which most Americans believe in..

If you don’t act, the danger becomes stronger..

If a society cannot even support somebody like me, then people ask: Who is under protection then? That's why there is such support for me. It is not ….

Twitter is the people’s tool, the tool of the ordinary people, people who have no other resources..

Everyone of us is a potential convict..

Only with the Internet can a peasant I have never met hear my voice and I can learn what's on his mind. A fairy tale has come true..

To experience poetry is to see over and above reality. It is to discover that which is beyond the physical, to experience another life and another le….

Being an artist is more of a mindset, a way of seeing things; it is no longer so much about producing something..

I think it’s a responsibility for any artist to protect freedom of expression and to use any way to extend this power..